I don't need new boots I got bluchers back down home. Eff the effing bluchers I'll buy you new adjectival effing elastic sided boots.

People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else

I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from.

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners take possession, no matter how many times we pint over it.

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known by nothing, lonelier and colder than the space between the stars. It was more frightening than being dead.